Metal-banding device



(No Model.)

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METAL BANDING DEVICE. No. 565,664. Patented Au 11,1896;

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HENRY S. BACON, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

METAL-BANDING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 565,664, dated August 11, 1896.

Application filed November 22,1895. Serial No, 569,328. (No model.)

Fig. 2 is a section, as on line Z, Fig. 1, showin g the elastic device for actuating the grips.

The object of this invention is to add certain improvements to the metal-clamping device patented to me on July 12, 1887, by United States Letters Patent No. 366,293, to

which reference is to be had; and the invention consists in certain improvements in the wire-gripping devices by which the wire is held while being brought to the requisite tension, and in certain improvements in the means by which the implement is held and actuated, as will be next pointed out, and then stated in the claim.

Referring again to said drawings, a and I) represent the two arms of the implement, the

' two being united by pivot m. A lever d is pivoted to a and it is provided with a handle 0 f, and to said lever, as also to arm I), is pivoted the link 6, as shown. Arm b is bent near they are formed with a lip h, that extends across the face of said arms, said lips being formed with teeth (shown at Z) that are perpendicular to said arms, as shown in Fig. 1.

The ends it of arms a b are cut oblique to lip h, as shown, so that as the wire or ribbon is gripped between the two the greatest pressure thereon will be at the inner edge of said arms, and the contact with such ribbon will gradually cease as such gripping contact diminishes toward the outer edge of said arms.

A coiled spring j is seated on pivots t' in a counter-bore in the arms, and the ends of said springs are respectively secured in arms a b and grips g, as shown, so as toclose the grips upon the ribbon when they are liberated.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is Ina metal-banding implement, the combination of levers b and cl provided with suitable handles, the lever a pivoted to lever 12 and having lever cl pivotally united with it,-

and the short link e pivotally uniting levers b and cl, the grips arranged on levers a and Z7 and provided with pivots '5, and the coiled spring j arranged on said pivots and with their ends anchored to the lever and grips substantially as specified.

- HENRY S. BACON. Witnesses:

T. W. PORTER, A. F. SrowE. 

